{"id":1370768,"date":"2022-03-11T08:08:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T13:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1370768"},"modified":"2022-03-11T08:11:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T13:11:05","slug":"nasa-rolls-out-trial-program-on-preferred-pronouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nasa-rolls-out-trial-program-on-preferred-pronouns\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Rolls Out Trial Program on \u201cPreferred Pronouns\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnasa-rolls-out-trial-program-on-preferred-pronouns%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1370768&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>A few weeks ago, NASA&#8217;s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland rolled out a new program that allowed employees to place their preferred pronouns alongside their name and ID number on their official identification during meetings.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>On Monday, the program was suspended, and NASA released a statement saying that they are yet to determine whether or not preferred pronouns are &#8220;appropriate in a professional context,&#8221; according to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2022\/03\/nasa-pronouns-gender-inclusivity-space.html\">Slate<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>Following the suspension of the program, NASA Associate Administrator for Diversity and Equal Opportunity, Steve Shih, released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/nasa-statement-on-gender-pronouns-it-project\">statement<\/a> to clarify the agency&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;Through an effort to create a more inclusive workplace,&#8221; the statement reads, &#8220;NASA recently completed an IT project at Goddard Space Flight Center that allowed approximately 125 employees to test the option of including their gender pronouns in NASA\u2019s email display fields \u2014 which currently includes each employee&#8217;s name, center, and an organizational code.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You have one job, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NASA<\/a>, it&#8217;s space exploration. Pronouns are irrelevant. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vpJ8G56g4i\">https:\/\/t.co\/vpJ8G56g4i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 libby emmons (@libbyemmons) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libbyemmons\/status\/1502041257484472323?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;The learnings from this test will be used to inform the advancement of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;NASA is fully committed to supporting every employee&#8217;s right to be addressed by their correct name and pronouns,&#8221; the statement continues. &#8220;All NASA employees currently have the option and flexibility to include their gender pronouns in their customized email signature blocks. This option remains unchanged and is supported by NASA leadership so that employees can share their gender identities and show allyship to the LGBTQIA+ community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>The decision to suspend the program was met with backlash on social media after a Reddit user claiming to be a NASA employee came forward with their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/lgbt\/comments\/t9kbpk\/nasa_goddard_just_removed_displayed_pronouns_from\/\">story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;I expected more from NASA,&#8221; one reply <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/lgbt\/comments\/t9kbpk\/nasa_goddard_just_removed_displayed_pronouns_from\/\">said<\/a>. &#8220;They used to be able to put people on the moon, now they can\u2019t even let employees display pronouns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, NASA&#8217;s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland rolled out a new program that allowed employees to place their preferred pronouns alongside their name and ID<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1370768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}